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I don't find that how special the characters are, or aren't, is in and of itself a concern for me. I more care that the level of special-ness is well-chosen to match the genre of the game.

And only for some very generous definitions of the word, "soon." The new manufacturing capacity would have to be developed first. Then we hit the meta-issue of the limits on the capacity to build capacity. Like, if I want to print more books in the US, I need to stand up a printing...

I don't know where you are going with this. Mastering any skill takes time, sure. But playing with a focus on that skill does not require one attain mastery first. Or, maybe you misunderstood me previously - I said that it is hard to play with focus on resource management with infrequent...

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According to Merriam-Webster: Jerry-built means “built cheaply and unsubstantially.” Jerry-rigged means “organized or constructed in a crude or improvised manner.” Jury-rigged means “constructed or arranged in a makeshift fashion.” Where "jury-rigged" is the oldest such construction, and was...

How much it costs the giver is not relevant. Whether a thing is a gift or not depends on whether there's an exchange of value. If I give you something, and get nothing in return, then it is a gift. If I give you a thing because you gave me something of value, I am paying for that value. You...

Yes. You give me posts, I give you something of value for those posts - that's paying. It isn't paying in cash, but it is still paying.

Giving perks is paying.

Eh. Again, it depends what skill. Yes, the skills connected to long-term resource management are hard to make central to play with shorter, less-frequent sessions. Skills around, say, dramatic pacing? Shorter sessions are perfect for those.

With horror (or any work that depicts sufficient harm or brutality), it is possible to be so struck by the awfulness that you can't get to the underlying message. But that doesn't mean hope doesn't exist. In IT, the kids, and later the adults, prevail over the horror, through the power of...

Mod Note: I am... somewhat boggled. Like, you just responded to a post of mine in this thread. You know I'm gonna get a ping from the system, and that I'm highly likely to then come and read the thread... ...and, that's the moment when you choose to make the discussion personal about another...

Tell me that you missed my mentioning how you provide mechanical support so that isn't an issue, without telling me that you missed it... How many individuals do you get to present to your players in a session that are getting more than a mere brushing of their surface? I've seen folks around...

Did someone teach you that a story should have one, singular, "THE point"? That person was incorrect. Wow, are you wrong. IT speaks to the loss of childhood innocence, and how that's a one-way gate you can never return through. The book also has themes regarding how monsters like...

So, I think you're being a lot more specific with that then the "Die Hard, on an X" trope generally is.

(Rhetorical, generic "you" below, not you, Alkaizer, specifically) So, do you just drag someone onto a dance floor, and ask them to do the polka, and expect them to do it well the very first time? If you don't do it again for months, do you expect it to go well the second time? No. In...

So... Aliens?

Given that IT is specifically about a bunch of kids who experience horrors, and then the same characters as adults, carrying that trauma, dealing with the same horror all over again?

I don't know if there are any other full-on direct callback episodes yet. There are a ton of references though. Like, "Spock Amok" where he and T'Pring swap bodies, is a reference to TOS "Amok Time". Everywhere we see Doctor Korby looking for tech that will make people immortal is a reference...